15 Oct 2007

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October 15th 2007

Published: October 18th 2007

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Kurt

Le Pavilion

This was our home for our first three nights in Phnom Penh.

Today we left Phnom Penh & flew to Siem Reap.

We took Tuk-Tuks to the the airport through the most gloriously insane traffic you can imagine! People here use traffic signals, where they exist, as guidlines only and mostly do what they want when they want to. I don't know why it works, but it does.

After we arrived in Siem Reap we went to Loy Bun Seak's home (a local member of the LDS church that Kendal knows) and had lunch with his family. It was a wonderful home-cooked feast and a nice chance to meet his family. (Bun Seak is the driver we have hired for the rest of this trip, if you ever come here, I can't recommend him highly enough!!!).

After lunch we toured the Banteay Kdei & Ta Prohm Temple ruins.

(This is the firs day I had a heat issue. I went to bed at 5:30 PM and slept untill 4 AM.)

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Kendal & Renee in Tuk Tuk

On the way to Phnom Penh Airport.

Traffic

On the way to the Phnom Penh Airport.

Traffic

On the way to the Phnom Penh Airport. The car on the right is not parked. He wanted to make a left turn so he drove down the left side of the street which everyone else seemed to accept as normal.

Siem Reap Airways

Fairly colorful plane.

Rice Fields

Just outside of Siem Reap.

Temple Complex

I don't know for sure where this was, but it was easy enough to see from the air so it must have been large.

Tonle Sap Estuary

This Shows the Tonle Sap River flowing north into Tonle Sap. Within three days it had changed and started flowing south into the Mekong River, signifiying the end of the Monsoon season.